Author:Robert Bell

Robert Bell
(1800–1867)

Works

Biographies, travels, and journalism

• The Life of the Rt. Hon. George Canning (1846) (external scan)
• Wayside Pictures through France, Belgium, and Holland (1849) (external scan)
• "Rose Street" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 1 (1859)
• "The First Play-house" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 1 (1859)
• "An Old Flemish Town, and the Way to It: A Roadside Sketch" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 3 (1860)
• "Frosts on the Thames" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 4 (1861)
• "The Savoy" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 11 (1864)

Drama

• Marriage (1842) (external scan)
• Mothers and Daughters (1843) (external scan)
• Temper (1847) (external scan)
• "The Secret That Can't Be Kept" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 2 (1860)

Novels

• Hearts and Altars (1852), 3 vols.
• Ladder of Gold (1856) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Contributions to Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopædia"

• History of England, Volume 10 (1830) (external scan)
• The British Admirals, with an Introductory View of the Naval History of England (Volume 5, vols. 1-4 having been written by Robert Southey) (1833) (external scan)
• History of Russia (1836) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Lives of the English Poets (1839) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

As editor

• The Atlas, a London weekly journal
• Monthly Chronicle, published from 1838 to 1841
• The Story-teller or Table Book of Popular Literature (1843) (external scan)
• Memorials of the Civil War Comprising the Correspondence of the Fairfax Family with the Most Distinguished Personages Engaged in That Memorable Contest (1849) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England (1857) (external scan)
• Early Ballads Illustrative of History, Traditions and Customs (1861) (external scan)
• The Poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson (1878) (external scan)

"The Annotated Edition of the English Poets"

• Poetical Works of John Dryden (1854) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, Volume 3 3)
• Poetical Works of William Cowper (1854) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Songs from the Dramatists (1854) (external scan)
• Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1854) (external scan)
• Poetical Works of John Oldham (1854)
• Poetical Works of Edmund Waller (1854) (external scan)
• Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, of Minor Contemporaneous poets and of Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (1854) (external scan)
• Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1854) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
• The Poems of William Shakspeare (1855) (external scan)
• Poetical Works of Samuel Butler (1855) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Poetical Works of James Thomson (1855) (external scan)

Works about Bell

• "Bell, Robert (1800-1867)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Bell, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Bell, Robert," in A Compendium of Irish Biography (p. 15), by Alfred Webb, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son (1878)